Korean Webtoons

aka: Korean Webtoon

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Korean webtoons are a subgenre of manhwa that are published exclusively online as Web Comics, usually on comic hosting sites such as Naver and Daum. Unlike Western Webcomics, this gives them a totally different funding dynamic, as, although they do not have publishers, as such, they are funded through the hosts. Every click still counts, even if the model isn't that of a personally owned project or business variety.

Their layout is different from standard manhwa — instead of individual pages, webtoons are posted as one long, scrolling page per chapter/ strip, with most being entirely in color. Because they are not bound by publisher requirements as much as their print counterparts, webtoons also tend to be a little more avant garde, with either less conventional story lines or dealing with subjects that aren't usually addressed in mainstream entertainment. Expect much in the way of Genre-Busting and Deconstruction within the medium as standard.

Korean Webtoons in fiction:

Film

Killer Toon is about a webtoon artist who becomes a murder suspect after the grisly deaths she depicts in her horror webtoons start coming true in Real Life.

Live-Action TV

In the Korean DramaMimi, the protagonist Han Min-woo is a webtoon artist, and becomes inspired by his dreams to draw a story about Mimi. (In the original film that the drama was based off, however, he was a novelist.)

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